{"product_id":"9781101464380","title":"My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe fairy tale lives again in this book of forty new stories by some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNeil Gaiman, “Orange”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAimee Bender, “The Color Master”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eJoyce Carol Oates, “Blue-bearded Lover”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMichael Cunningham, “The Wild Swans”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThese and more than thirty other stories by Francine Prose, Kelly Link, Jim Shepard, Lydia Millet, and many other extraordinary writers make up this thrilling celebration of fairy tales—the ultimate literary costume party.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSpinning houses and talking birds. Whispered secrets and borrowed hope. Here are new stories sewn from old skins, gathered by visionary editor Kate Bernheimer and inspired by everything from Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” and “The Little Match Girl” to Charles Perrault’s “Bluebeard” and “Cinderella” to the Brothers Grimm’s “Hansel and Gretel” and “Rumpelstiltskin” to fairy tales by Goethe and Calvino and from China, Japan, Vietnam, Russia, Norway, and Mexico.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFairy tales are our oldest literary tradition, and yet they chart the imaginative frontiers of the twenty-first century as powerfully as they evoke our earliest encounters with literature. This exhilarating collection restores their place in the literary canon.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47116419662064,"sku":"9781101464380","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101464380_p0.jpg?v=1763687015","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101464380","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}